In this article we will deconstruct your entire identity and your illusion of individuality.
Answer these six questions to yourself:

1. I was born on the date.
   
2. My age is.
   
3. My name is.
   
4. I was born in the city, state of.
   
5. My religion is.
   
6. My social security number is.
   

You should have all the answers.
These answers make up your basic identity.
These answers you probably use daily.
They make up the foundation that created your illusion of individuality.
To believe in each answer requires a certain amount of self-deception.
To illustrate, follow along as each question is deconstructed.
Let's deconstruct the illusion of your birthdate first.
The Illusion: "You" were born during a day in the past.
The Reality: "You" were never "born".
Life is an infinite chain with no beginning nor ending.
This will probably make very little sense to you.
Let's better understand.
A "day" is defined as:

• An arbitrary measurement of time;
• Based on an artificial calendar;
• Created by men;
• Who believed they communicated with invisible forces;
• Who created the calendar based on cosmological events;
• That represented the measured time it took for the Earth to revolve around the sun..
  

This is a somewhat accurate definition of a "day".
A "year" is approximately 365 of these days, which is part of a "calendar".
The news flash is that days, years and calendars are human make-believe.
Artificial.
Entirely made up.
Your "birthday" is based on this make-believe.
If you disagree, keep in mind that the measurement of time by human beings (seemingly scientific and "necessary" for the operation of a human civilization) changes nothing and means nothing in reality.
In other words, before the human race "existed" there was no calendar nor measurement of time and things got along just fine.
It should be quite obvious why civilized human beings are the only living organisms that seek to measure "time" and create illusions of "birthdays".
While you will not believe this next statement, read it twice: The reason animals do not celebrate birthdays is they would find the task of "measuring time" just as ridiculous as "celebrating a birthday".
Still disagree? Use the Dog Test.
If a dog will not acknowledge it, it is not real.
Try explaining a calendar to a dog.
Or a birthday.
Or your tax return.
Obviously, the dog will not acknowledge it.
Why? All three are artificial.
None of those things exist outside of your mind.
A dog will understand play and food.
They exist.
Calendars and birthdays do not.
Would a sponge that lives at the depths of the dark ocean have any use for a calendar? What use is our calendar in space? Anywhere outside of Earth-based land-dwellers, a calendar is quite silly.
Let's move to the second question regarding your age.
You calculated your age based on this make-believe birthday and our make-believe calendar.
You came to a certain number.
Do you actually believe that this is the length of time you have lived? Think about it.
Think very, very hard.
Yes, your age is an arbitrary, useless number to determine how many "calendar years" since a replication occurred.
Illusion: Your age is how many years since you were born.
To get closer to your real age, add approximately three and a half billion years.
That answer of approximately 3,502,119,4679 will be closer, but still not correct.
Reality: The age you believe you are today is merely the number of artificial "calendar years" since a replication occurred.
Your real age is infinity.
(This reality is impossible for you to accept so do not even bother).
Now that we have covered birthdays and ages, let's move to the third question.
Your city/state of your "birth".
In order to do that we must first define what a "city" is.
Reality: A city is a small geographic area between artificial, invisible boundaries which usually consists of artificial human power-structures built atop the Earth's surface.
A state is not much different, so we will just stick with the city.
It is worth noting that the "boundaries" of a city can be "altered" at the whim of the collective at any time, making them even more arbitrary.
It is fascinating to understand what is required for a human being to believe that a city exists:

• Identify invisible boundaries encompassing a part the Earth's surface with an artificial "word".
  
• Build a totem, flag, symbol and/or building central to that area.
  
• Place a "leader" or "set of leaders" in charge.
  
• Possess a basic capacity for self-deception.
  
• Invest a small amount of human emotion into the idea to give it more meaning.
  

Without these components, you will merely be standing atop the Earth's surface.
The emotion and self-deception component are required.
Once the "city" has been established through repetitive use, mappings, etc it will become common knowledge that this "city" exists.
It will slowly be associated with certain industries, climates, crime rates, etc until this city establishes it's own identity.
I've heard the opposing argument: "But, naming a city makes it easier to identify, locate, etc.
" Agreed.
But this changes nothing regarding the reality that all cities are illusions.
They are human make-believe.
It is impossible to argue against the reality that all invisible boundaries atop the Earth's surface (private property lines, counties, cities, states, countries, etc) are human make-believe.
Now that you understand cities/states, let's combine what we know so far.
Your birthday does not exist.
Your age is infinity.
Your birthplace is an illusion based on human make-believe.
Let's continue on to the fourth question which is your name.
This is an easy one.
Who can argue against the reality that your name was entirely made up? Reality: Human names are random, meaningless words that are generally repeated in a particular culture, time and geographic location--then associated with a particular artificial identity.
As an illustration, it is quite normal today for a replication be named John Smith within the invisible boundaries consisting of the United States.
It is also quite normal for a replication to be named Mohammed Khan within the invisible boundaries consisting of what is called Pakistan.
These geographical boundaries and names can be interchanged with little difficulty--for we know that all names and countries are make-believe.
It might be a startling thought coming to the awareness that your name is make-believe at the same time considering how central your name is to your illusion of individuality.
The startling part is not coming to the realization that your name is make-believe.
The startling part is knowing why we all must be named within a civilization.
One reason is because the human naming system is founded in narcissism, self-love and self-worship.
We are obsessed with naming ourselves and individuality.
A second reason is quite a paradox.
Human civilization is basically founded on the worship of suffering (covered in another article) and the escape from natural reality.
Since civilization functions as an escape from natural reality, we require a illusion of individuality.
Without naming, without individuality, we become animals: Vividly aware that we are all one, functioning together, in the same environment.
In other words, civilization requires us to be at war with ourselves (as individuals) in order for civilization to exist.
Becoming aware of reality renders civilization transparent.
Look around.
We are naming-obsessed.
We name ourselves, we name our pets, we name persons, places, things.
We've named every element, every galaxy, every asteroid.
We'd name every star we could see if we had enough telescopes and enough numbers.
When you look hard enough, you'll see why we are the only living organism that names everything.
Why? Outside the confines of our artificial human condition, naming everything is quite silly.
Let's move on briefly in regards to the fifth question.
Your religion.
Reality: Now that we have deconstructed your birthday, age, birthplace and name as artificial, it should come of no surprise that the religion you possess/believe (generally the religion of your parents/culture/time/place) is just as artificial.
It should be of no surprise that a new replication (child) in these three geographic areas will generally fit today's culture/time:

• America in 2012: Christian child
• Iran in 2012: Muslim child
• India in 2012: Hindu child

If you are learning, you should see that all 6 of those above words do reference invisible boundaries on the left, and human ideas on life on the right.
But all 6 words are make-believe.
Finally, the sixth question.
Your social security number.
Reality: The US Social Security number is a made-up number based on your calendar date of birth, the geographic location of your birth and a random serial number.
Let's deconstruct.
If your SSN is a combination of two artificial components (date of birth and location of birth) and a random number, then it's completely make-believe.
It might as well be entirely random.
All three components of a social security number are arbitrary and meaningless.
That said, you may wonder what the point is in deconstructing all of this? One reason is entertainment.
The most entertaining part of life is knowing that none of the questions and answers are real outside of your mind.
They are all illusions.
Another reason is to help you take a look outside the artificial reality you have created for yourself for a few minutes.
(You may return to your artificial reality at any time).
Maybe the reason we are so fascinated by actors, fiction and fantasy is because we yearn to escape reality.
The reason civilization requires all of these illusions is to escape reality.
But what is that "reality" we are escaping from? It's quite simple: All life is one.